Student Honors Recognition Awards 2020
Student Honors Recognition Awards acknowledge students who have won awards, scholarships and prizes throughout the academic year.
15th Annual Essay Contest Center for the Study of Ethics/Essay Contest
First Place, Carissa Boerboom
“Cambridge Analytica: The Scandal on Data Privacy”
Second Place, Rachel Hecke
“Living with Moral Schizophrenia”
Third Place, Vanessa Iroegbulem
“Disease Mongering: How Sickness Sells”
Honorable Mention, Brian Duffley
“America’s Out-of-Style Pastime”
Honorable Mention, Hawarit Mohammed
“Healthcare System in Ethiopia”
Arthur E. and Dorothy Dahl Leadership Scholarship
Kaitlyn Watkins
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
Program Co-Coordinators, Dr. Jennifer Popple and Dr. Umme Al-wazedi
Short Analytical Essay
First Place, Vanessa Iroegbulem
“Not Queer Enough: How Current Medical School Curriculum is Failing the LGBT+Community”
Professor: Dr. Kiki Kosnick
Second Place, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
“Give Name to the Nameless So It Can Be Thought”
Professor: Dr. Michelle Wolff
Honorable Mention, Tran Le
“Homeland, Reimagined in the Woman Warrior”
Professor: Dr. Meg Gillette
Long Analytical Essay
First Place, Rebecca Garbe
“Far from “Mortal Danger”: The Effects of Intentional Inclusivity in the French Language Classroom”
Professor: Dr. Kiki Kosnick
Second Place, Robert Burke
“The Morphology of Sex: Tracking Change in the Sex Discourse at Augustana College N-1962”
Professor: Dr. Kiki Kosnick
Honorable Mention, Amber Hanke
“Disrupting the Androcentric Prison System”
Professor: Dr. Jane Simonsen
Personal/Reflective Prose Essay
First Place, Melody Konrad
“I’m So Lucky to Know You”
Second Place, Moreen Akomea-Ampeh
“Masked Marginalization”
Honorable Mention, Elizabeth Fulkerson
“The Bloody Truth”
Professor: Dr. Rebecca Wee
Eddie Mabry Award on Diversity
Imani Muhummad – “Ode to the Black Body”
Lauren Hall – “Don’t Act So Innocent, A Midwest Lynching Narrative”
Excellence in the Liberal Arts Award
Molly Bastida
Natalia Czachorowski
Amber Hanke
Jessica Kurkowski
Genesis Li
MacKenzie Peterson
Monica Thompson
Ann Wheeler
Geifman Endowment “Response to the Holocaust” Competition
First Place, T.J. Coleman
“From Leaflets to Tweets: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Propaganda Tools used by the Nazi Party and Donald Trump”
First Place, Joseph Knapik
“The Problem of Jewish Agency in the Holocaust”
First Place, Kathryn Weber
“The National Socialist and How They Ostracized an Entire Population”
Hasselmo Prize for Academic Pursuit
Georgia Votta
Honor Council Service Recognition
Nadia Ayensah
Madison Baxter
Emily Blicharz
Ehren Braun
Jillian Clifton
Adrienne Fouts
David Nevarez
Alondra Ochoa
Neil O’Shaughnessy
Aly Twilbeck
The Rossing Physics Award
Georgia Votta
SAGA Art and Literary Magazine Awards
Art Award
Judge’s Choice, Christopher Ferman
“Obsolete Shapes”
Honorable Mention, Ian Murrin
“Emotion Studies in Rage”
Poetry Award
Judge’s Choice, Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
“Fair Exchange, No Robbery”
Honorable Mention, Madeline Young
“In the Graveyards? The Basement?”
Prose Award
Judge’s Choice, Lalina Shanela Ranaraja
“Notes from a Cross-Cultural Summer”
Honorable Mention, Cassandra Karn
“From the Earth Came my Love”
Barbara Anderson Miller Award for best all-around piece in the magazine
Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, “Fair Exchange, No Robbery”
2020 Texas Medical Center Summer Research Internship Program
Baylor College of Medicine
Camila Davila
Brady Fischer
Vanessa Iroegbulem
Morgan Rottinghaus
Texas Children’s Hospital
Rachel Oliver
MD Anderson Cancer Research Center
Samantha Berggren
DiAngelo Gonzalez
Thao Huynh
Matt MacArthur
Kalli Majewski
Sara Mazrimas
Claire Nguyen
Giang Pham Thi Hong
Tracy Pham
Iva Vucic
Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research
Laura Keenan, “Looking Beyond Binaries to Avoid Polarization in the Sex Work Debate”